Improvement in cotton-presses



UNITE 'rArEs ATENE IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No, 136,060, dated July 30, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MONTGOMERY LYNCH, of Horn Lake, in the county of De Soto and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and usefuloImprovements in Cotton-Presses 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction andoperation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which is represented a longitudinal section of 'my press.

A represents an upright balebox of any suitrable construction, provided with doors in the center and with two followers, B and-B', the former at the lower and the latter at the upper end,l which followers are to move toward 'each other, pressing the bale in the center of the box. The follower B is provided with a 4downward-proj ecting central arm, O, the lower end of which is hinged or pivoted to the short end of a lever, D. This lever is pivoted between two upright posts, E E, and its outer or longer end guided between two other posts, E'

E'. In like manner the `upper follower B' has lan upward-projecting arm, C', pivoted to a lever, D', and this lever also pivoted between the posts E, and its outerend guided by the posts i E'. The opposite sides of the levers D D' are, at or near their outer ends, provided with hinged or pivoted arms G G', respectively, the

pivoted ends of which bear against shoulders aa' formed on said levers, as shown. The lower end of the arm G' is forked and the upper end of the arm G is pivoted in the same, the pivot being, upon its ends, provided with wheels b b, which rest and move upon horizontal bars H H connecting the posts E E with the posts E' E'. On the same pivot, or, in other words, at the joint of the arms G and G', is attached a bail, d, from which a rope or chain, e, is to connect with a windlass.

While filling the bale-box A the arms G G' will be nearly closed together, the wheels b b being close to the posts E E on the bars H H. By means of the windlass the rope or chain c is drawn so as to move the wheels b`b outward on the bars H H, which separates and gradually straightens the arms G G', thereby turning the levers D D' upon the pivots, so as to force the followers B B inward toward each other and press the bale.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. In a press having two followers operating in opposite directions, I claim the arrangement of the levers D D' and arms G G', for operating said followers, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The combination, with a bale-box, A, and followers B B', of the levers D D', posts E E', arms G G', wheels b b, and barsH H,`all substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.4

In testimony that I 4claim the foregoing as my own Iafx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

-K MONTGOMERY LYNCH.

Witnesses:

LEWIS HowEs, A. P. MONTANA.

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